CVE-2021-39202
Published: 9 September 2021
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. In affected versions the widgets editor introduced in WordPress 5.8 beta 1 has improper handling of HTML input in the Custom HTML feature. This leads to stored XSS in the custom HTML widget. This has been patched in WordPress 5.8. It was only present during the testing/beta phase of WordPress 5.8.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 5.4
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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wordpress Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Needs triage
|
focal |
Needs triage
|
|
hirsute |
Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
|
|
impish |
Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
|
|
jammy |
Needs triage
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
upstream |
Not vulnerable
(debian: Vulnerable code introduced later)
|
|
xenial |
Ignored
(out of standard support)
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